AWS Dev-Ops Engineer with a Healthcare Background

Looking for an AWS Dev Ops Engineer to support growing, fast paced DevOps team for a leading healthcare technology company delivering innovative solutions for pharmacy benefits and prescription savings. Our enterprise platform brings transparency, flexibility, and efficiency to pharmacy benefit management, helping clients streamline operations and enabling consumers to save on prescriptions.

Primary Skills:

• 5 plus years of Dev Ops, SRE, engineering
• Strong knowledge of essential AWS components, services, and networks (EC2, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, IAM). Experience with other components (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, EMR) is a plus
• at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or Powershell (Python and Powershell are typically used internally) and one infrastructure-as-code approach (Terraform,). Experience with other languages is a plus.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes or container technology.
• Knowledge of Code Repositories and Code deployment tools
• Secondary skills: CMS or Experience working with government (Medicaid, Medicare) security and government policies such as IS2PE, ARS, GRC is a

• Responsibilities:

• Take a lead role as part of an experienced DevOps team in supporting business-critical services within an AWS cloud hosting environment for a growing, fast-paced healthcare startup
• Provide architecture, solutioning, and implementation support for technical requirements using modern architectural approaches including containers, Kubernetes, AWS tools, services, and serverless. Write code/scripts as part of the solution as necessary
• Lead DevOps projects as part of the DevOps team with a focus on taking all necessary steps for delivery, such as stakeholder communication and change management planning
• Develop, troubleshoot, and maintain the continuous integration and deployment pipelines in close partnership with the application engineering teams
• Understand the application and deployment environments and work closely with engineers, QA, and DBAs to ensure all environments are functional and configured correctly
• Create and help maintain the underlying AWS infrastructure for hosted applications and services as necessary
• Implement and support observability and alerting tools such as CloudWatch and New Relic for proactive responses to all technical issues
• Document troubleshooting steps/runbooks/procedures via an internal knowledge base and work to share knowledge among team members
• Champion and implement cloud and application security best practices
• Help grow and champion infrastructure-as-code approaches via Terraform, Cloudformation, or AWS CDK
• Be available for an on-call rotation schedule to troubleshoot problems and incidents

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree is required.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to travel to one of our offices occasionally for important meetings and team building
• Ability to work independently (you answer your own questions when you can) and see tasks through to completion.
• Willingness and ability to learn technologies and tools quickly to take advantage of the latest technical advances in a fast-changing cloud environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. Ability to see the big picture and system components and dependencies from a higher-level view to assess the problem. Willingness to own an issue until it s resolved.
• Past software engineering experience is a big plus as this role will have a focus on the software development aspects of a DevOps role.
• Comfort in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or Powershell (Python and Powershell are typically used internally) and one infrastructure-as-code approach (Terraform,). Experience with other languages is a plus.